"Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using," Google explains after uproar from Firefox users over a 5-second delay when loading YouTube

YouTube running on Mozilla Firefox.

What you need to know

• Multiple Firefox users have taken to social media to express their frustrations over the slow YouTube load time on the browser.
• Google has confirmed that the issue is closely related to its recent efforts to crackdown on YouTube ad blockers that were preventing users from monetizing their content via ads. 
• According to some Redditors, the video streaming platform spotted faster load times when spoofing Firefox as Google Chrome.
• Google added that any user with an ad blocker installed can be affected by this issue regardless of the browser they are using.